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Profits at RTÉ commercial arm hit by sale of GAAGo

Pre-tax profits at RTÉ's commercial arm last year reduced by 4% to €11.33m due to the firm no longer receiving profits from its GAAGo joint venture.

Business • 20 hrs

Labour Court throws out RTÉ worker's €77,000 claim

The Labour Court has thrown out a €77,000 claim by an RTÉ worker for alleged unpaid entitlements concerning pension, annual leave, public holidays and privilege days over a seven-year period.

Business • 11 Sep

RTÉ 100: From shortwave radio to instant phone updates

From shortwave in the GPO to instant updates on the RTÉ News app, RTÉ News has told quite the story over 100 years, writes Evelyn O'Rourke.

Ireland • 01 Sep

archive photo of people listening to a radio

RTÉ 100: The slow evolution of news broadcasting

This year, RTÉ is marking 100 years of public broadcasting in Ireland, with a year-long series of special broadcasts, projects and performances.

RTÉ 100 • 01 Sep

Internal RTÉ analysis shows 'challenges' with exit scheme

A voluntary exit programme in RTÉ failed to deliver the scale of departures needed by the broadcaster to meet plans for staff cuts, according to an internal analysis.

Business • 26 Aug

Voluntary exit costs at RTÉ were €8.5m last year - report

The exit costs associated with the 67 members of staff who left RTÉ in 2025 under the voluntary exit programme (VEP) were €8.5m.

Ireland • 23 Jul

Senior managers make up nine of 10 highest earners at RTÉ

RTÉ's Annual Report shows that nine out of the broadcaster's ten highest earners last year were senior managers.

Ireland • 22 Jul

Joe Mag Raollaigh appointed as Managing Editor of Nuacht

RTÉ News has announced the appointment of Joe Mag Raollaigh as the new Managing Editor of Nuacht, the Irish language news and current affairs service for RTÉ and TG4.

Ireland • 13 Jul

Áine Lawlor thanks politicians and public in RTÉ farewell

After more than 40 years with RTÉ, broadcaster Áine Lawlor has hosted her final The Week in Politics on RTÉ One.

Ireland • 13 Jul

Proposal to reduce RTÉ campus size to be tabled, PAC told

A proposal to reduce the size of the RTÉ campus will be tabled in weeks, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

Politics • 09 Jul

Bakhurst rejects reports that RTÉ is seeking bailout

RTÉ Director General Kevin Bakhurst has "categorically refuted" media reports that the broadcaster is seeking additional public funding above what had already been agreed.

Politics • 08 Jul

Kielty's Late Late Show firm pays out dividend of €218k

The television programming and broadcasting firm Patrick Kielty set up after securing the role of host of RTE's flagship Late Late Show last year paid out dividends of €218,590.

Business • 23 Jun

The RTE radio and television campus in Donnybrook

SIPTU's RTÉ members threaten action over outsourcing

SIPTU members employed in RTÉ have voted overwhelmingly in favour of balloting for industrial action if there is any further outsourcing of production or roles at the broadcaster.

Business • 02 Jun

RTÉ defends spending over €230,000 on chauffeur services

RTÉ has defended the spending of more than €230,000 on private chauffeur services over a six-year period.

Ireland • 28 May

Journalist's bid for higher grade fails at Labour Court

An RTÉ journalist has failed in his bid to be re-classified at a higher grade and secure additional compensation for his work on a project.

Business • 22 May

Kevin Bakhurst at the Oireachtas Committee on Media

As it happened: RTÉ executives appear before committee

Follow developments as senior RTÉ executives appear before the Oireachtas Committee on Media, where pensions, funding and reform are down for discussion.

Politics • 20 May

Potential 'one or two' RTÉ employees earning more than DG

RTÉ's Director-General Kevin Bakhurst has accepted there could be "one or two cases" where people in the organisation are earning more than him.

Politics • 20 May

RTÉ Director General Kevin Bakhurst, Chairperson of the RTÉ board Terence O'Rourke and Adrian Lynch deputy Director General of RTÉ leaving a meeting with Minister for Communications Patrick O'Donovan

RTÉ 'paid a price for transparency' - Director General

RTÉ's Director General Kevin Bakhurst said he believes the broadcaster has "paid the price for transparency" over the payments controversy involving presenter and producer Derek Mooney.

Politics • 20 May

Minister to seek approval to move RTÉ under C&AG remit

Minister for Communications Patrick O'Donovan is to seek Cabinet approval tomorrow to move RTÉ under the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Politics • 18 May

Minister for Communications to seek 'full clarity' at RTÉ

The Minister for Communications will want to ensure "there's full clarity and transparency" at RTÉ, when he meets Director General Kevin Bakhurst and chair of the RTÉ Board Terence O'Rourke on Tuesday, the Taoiseach has said.

Politics • 17 May

Host Patrick Kielty reveals the set at a photocall with cast members from the Spotlight Stage School

RTÉ to spend €855,000 to distribute Toy Show donations

An estimated €855,000 is to be spent over the next five years on consultants to assist RTÉ with the distribution of the millions of euro generated by the annual Late Late Toy Show appeal.

Business • 12 May

Central Bank fiasco embroils RTÉ's new finance chief

Regulations introduced by the Central Bank have now been found to be deeply flawed by the courts on two occasions, writes David Murphy

Business • 05 May

Former RTÉ managing director Liam Miller dies

The death has occurred of former RTÉ executive producer and managing director, with responsibility for organisation and development, Liam Miller.

Ireland • 01 May

WRC rejects €360k employment status claim by RTÉ worker

A video editor in the RTÉ newsroom has lost a €360,000 employment rights claim after a ruling that she failed to establish in evidence that she was an employee during the relevant period.

Business • 14 Apr

RTÉ names Britz as new Chief Financial Officer

RTÉ has announced the appointment of Annemarie Britz to the position of Chief Financial Officer at the broadcaster, following a public competition.

Business • 13 Apr